New publication in Argumentation: Assessing Classification Reliability...

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Different types and argumentative uses of conditionals (if-then) have been distinguished in the literature, but their applicability to actual language use is rarely evaluated.

As 'the proof of the pudding is in the eating', my new paper in Argumentation (Springer) entitled 'Assessing Classification Reliability of Conditionals in Discourse' addresses this issue by means of an experiment in which the inter-rater reliability of classifications applied to natural-language corpora was assessed.

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New publication in Argumentation: 'Assessing Classification Reliability of Conditionals in Discourse'

You can find the paper (open access) in Argumentation here: https://rdcu.be/c9nO4.

Custom reference corpora in keyword analysis

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Today I added the option to directly compare two texts on the keyword analysis page.

Before today, only one general Dutch and one general English reference corpus could be loaded, but much of the time, a custom corpus is needed to get more informative results. For example, say you'd like to see a list of keywords in a certain novel. It makes sense to compare this novel to another novel, as in the screenshot below, or perhaps to a collection of other novels.

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Well, now you can. Simply copy-paste the reference corpus to the webpage, and you're good to go.